Advisor

Academic Advisory Positions

Dan is an active advisory board member of the Interaction Design Foundation an open web publishing resource available to the global UX community.  This website is the definitive technical reference site authored by the world’s leading experts in every facet of interaction design.  Millions of teachers, students and practicing professionals use this web resource every month. Interaction-design.org is particularly important in raising the level of design practice in emerging economies where the traditional book-publishing model is too expensive to effectively disseminate such critical information.

Dan is also on the advisory board of the UC Irvine Masters in Interaction Design (MSID) program where he contributes along with the other board members regarding the program structure and content.

Dan was also a founding member of the editorial advisory board for the ACM Networker Magazine along with Don Norman, Jacob Nielsen, Gordon Bell and Bran Farran.  In addition Dan was the advisory board member for Eastman Kodak to MCC for the HCI program from 1985-1988.   MCC was the multi-industry consortium building the American 5th generation (AI) computer.

Industry Advisory Positions

Dan is an advisor to the following startups:

Recent Posts

Dec. 9, 2024 Today Dan participated in a Webinar titled Towards strengthening Methods in Design Education and Practice, Webinar hosted by Lucern University of Applied Sciences.  The purpose was a panel discussion by the authors of the article with the same title early this year.

June 4, 2024 – Dan was an invited panelist at the Rosenfeld Media conference – Designing with AI

March 20, 2024 – Article on Design Education titled Towards strengthening Methods in Design Education and Practice coauthored by Dan was published.  This was created for the 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, London, United Kingdom.

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